Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 details leaked

Details of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 560 GPU, the company's answer to AMD's Radeon HD 6950, have been apparently leaked ahead of the official launch.

Fabricated using TSMC's 40nm process, the GeForce GTX 560 is reportedly designed as a cheaper alternative to the company's GeForce GTX 570 and GeForce GTX 580 GPUs, without drastically sacrificing performance.

According to a GPU-Z screenshot spotted by TechPowerUp, the GPU will include 384 stream processors, 32 ROPs and a 256-bit memory interface, along with 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

The core GPU clock is said to be set at 820MHz, with the stream processors running at 1,640MHz and the GDDR5 memory set at 1GHz (4GHz effective). This should result in around 128GB/s of overall memory bandwidth. According to the grapevine, the chip is based on the same GF104 chip used in its predecessor, the GeForce GTX 460, but using the full allocation of 384 stream processors, rather than the 336 found in the GTX 460.

The clock speeds also represent a significant boost over its predecessor, and could help the GPU hit the performance levels it needs to seriously compete with the Radeon HD 6950.

There's no news on pricing yet, but cards based around the new GPU are expected to launch in January from a variety of hardware partners.

Could the GeForce GTX 560 offer serious competition to AMD's Radeon HD 6950, or has the green camp misjudged this round of the battle? Share your thoughts over in the forums.

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only reason i hadn't picked up the msi gtx 460 hawk for $180 ($160 after mir) was due to my cell might be crapping out on me and the one i want is $200, now that the 560 is getting a little more concrete both in specs and launch date, that gives me another reason to hold off. i may have to break out an old phone for 6 months so i can grab this.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the 560 will be the new enthusiast card of choice. I reckon it'll pull off performance similar to a 470 - and that's before overclocking, which it'll probably excel at.

This card seems like an improvement and could be the new card of choice for performance/price balance but I'm wondering something else...
I don't really know enough about this sort of thing but if its based on the same gf104 as the 460 just with an extra section unlocked. Could it be possible to unlock a 460 to a 560? (assuming the locked off section is only disabled, not somehow removed and also not faulty) Maybe at a lower clock speed but still with an increase in performance. I think a similar thing was done with some of the 465's unlocking to 470's(some point of view's maybe?)

Originally Posted by javamanIs 1gb enough? If its faster than the 470 or the 480 It could use more.

I doubt that it's going to be faster than a 480, The 570 is usually on par with the 480. So I suspect the numbers to be around the 470, give or take. Just a hunch. Although the 470 is 448 stream processors. I wonder if They've made the improvements on the GF104 chip that they did for the 110's? Hopefully better thermals for overclocking :)

I don't think it'll unseat the 570's spot, why would Nvidia do that? Plus the numbers don't show as much horsepower under the hood as the 570. I think that the 560 will probably run about the speeds of the 470, that's all I'm saying.

Originally Posted by javamanIs 1gb enough? If its faster than the 470 or the 480 It could use more.

I doubt that it's going to be faster than a 480, The 570 is usually on par with the 480. So I suspect the numbers to be around the 470, give or take. Just a hunch. Although the 470 is 448 stream processors. I wonder if They've made the improvements on the GF104 chip that they did for the 110's? Hopefully better thermals for overclocking :)

A 460 at or around 800-850 core clock can at least match a GTX470 in the round (or at least be within a few percent to make the difference inperceptible).

The product placement for this 560 seems slightly odd though.

As it currently stands there is only a small gap (in terms of real world gaming performance) between the HD6950 - GTX570 - HD6970 - GTX580. If the GTX560 is designed to be slightly faster than the HD6950 then it will be VERY close to the GTX570 making the latter seem slightly pointless (kind of like what happened to the GTX470 when the GTX460 launched).

Hopefully the 560 will significantly undercut the HD6950 in price otherwise it might be a bit of a hard sell. Of course if it does undercut the HD6950 pricing AND is faster, then what happens to the GTX570? Are we going to see another GTX470 style fire sale?

ILL go along with the $250 price. $275-$300 for soo the called high end models. I dought there will be much over clocking head room as its the same cards fully enabled. ill guess 950/1900 max though 1000/2000 would be sweet!

Tradition dictates the 560 will sit between the 6870 and 6950 in price and performance.

6870 < 560 < 6950 < 570 < 6970 < 580

NVidia likes to fill in the gaps in AMD/ATI's lineup. As has been mentioned already, they're not going to place it anywhere hear the 570, they'd rather make people choose a 560 over an AMD card than another of their own.